Amanda Yang

Built World

Overseeing Meta's renewable procurement portfolio

EDP Renewables North America began construction on Cypress Knee Solar, a 250-megawatt plant on roughly 2,200 acres of flat farmland near Lake Village in Chicot County, Arkansas. The company announced the groundbreaking on November 4, six months after signing a long-term power purchase agreement with Meta.

Updated 7 hours ago

Money Moves

As of September 2026: Signed Meta's offtake with Noon Energy

Grid batteries came with a four-hour ceiling. Now the companies with the fastest-growing electricity demand on Earth, the AI data-center operators, are buying batteries that discharge for 10 hours and, in one case, 100: Meta reserved up to 100 gigawatt-hours from Noon Energy, while Google contracted a 300-megawatt iron-air system in Minnesota and a zinc array in West Virginia.

Updated Sep 18